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OCTOBER 22, 2020

SAE International has published the first global standard that specifies, in a single document, both the electric vehicle and supply equipment (EVSE) ground-system requirements for wireless charging of electric vehicles (EV). The new standard, SAE J2954 , helps pave the way for charging without the need for plugging in—widely considered to be a key enabler for accelerating the adoption of EVs and autonomous vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) on Thursday announced the first global standard for wireless electric-car charging, which could help accelerate the technology's rollout. The standard—officially SAE J2954—applies to inductive-charging systems up to 11 kilowatts. As with existing SAE standards for other charging methods, J2954.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Seen by some as a moral imperative, electrification is swiftly changing the dynamics of the automotive industry. While automakers spend billions of dollars developing EVs and securing the necessary partners, many are becoming dependent on a handful of companies in Asia for the all-important battery cells needed to power the damn things. It’s gotten so […].

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Discover EV

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Hummer has been brought back to life, but this time it's electric. After a very long build-up, the Hummer EV has finally been given an official unveiling by GM which is branding it a “first-of-its kind supertruck” destined to “forge new paths with zero emissions”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

MAN Truck & Bus outlined its roadmap for the development of CO 2 -free mobility solutions for longer-distance transport. The company is entering into several partnerships for this purpose. For public transport and distribution applications, the decision seems to have been made: battery electric vehicles are the means of choice. Accordingly, MAN Truck & Bus already offers series production of the MAN Lion’s City E and eTGE as well as the eTGM electric distribution truck.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The South Korean supplier SK Innovation revealed Thursday that it’s developing cells that will only need two quick 10-minute charges to cover more than 500 miles of range when installed in an EV. SKI said that it expects to complete the development of the new cells by the first half of next year—or as soon as the end of the.

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Discover EV

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The MGB Roadster is a classic of the British sports car breed, but it has its flaws – namely the British Leyland build quality. RBW EV Classic Cars has the answer: an electric version of the classic, built from the ground up as a new car with the reliability of a modern EV.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2020

GMC introduced the 2022 HUMMER EV Edition 1. It will be the first fully electric addition to GMC’s lineup, driven by next-generation EV propulsion technology that enables off-road capability, on-road performance and an immersive driving experience. The HUMMER EV will get its energy from General Motors’ all-new Ultium batteries and power from Ultium Drive, GM’s proprietary EV drive units.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Automakers that build off-road vehicles often talk about how their development work has taken them to the far reaches of the globe, over millions of miles. As off-roading becomes electrified, with vehicles like the 2022 GMC Hummer EV just introduced, that need applies more than ever. Such was the case last month when we spoke with Jeep propulsion.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The upmarket Suzuki Across is set to arrive in the UK next month and is poised to take on the likes of the Vauxhall Grandland X PHEV and Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Renault has announced its involvement in the UK's largest second-life sustainable energy project, supplying Connected Energy with 1000 used batteries. Alongside this, the brand is commissioning its first, and Europe's largest, advanced battery storage (ABS) scheme in Douai, France.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

At the BMW Group plant in Leipzig, the 200,000 th BMW i3 model rolled off the production line last week. The BMW i3s (combined power consumption: 14.6 – 14.0 kWh/100 km) with Fluid Black metallic paint finish and accents in BMW i Blue was produced for a customer from Saxony and will be delivered by the BMW branch in Leipzig. The BMW i3 with 125 kW/170 hp and BMW i3s with 135 kW/184 hp are built in Leipzig for the world market on a dedicated production line and by specially trained employees.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Hyundai has issued a U.S. recall affecting more than 11,000 Kona Electric vehicles from the 2019 and 2020 model years, due to an issue that could cause the battery to short-circuit and potentially start a fire. With the issuance of the recall notice, submitted on October 13 and posted by the federal government Saturday, Hyundai Motor America.

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Drive EV

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Vauxhall is offering potential buyers a 48-hour test drive in the all-electric Corsa-e for a limited time only. The ‘Switch it up’ test drive offer runs from now until 1 st November, and gives potential buyers two full days to experience the all-electric Corsa-e. The offer will particularly help potential first-time electric buyers to find out how easy it is to live with a fully electric vehicle like the Corsa-e.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Audi has slotted a PHEV powertrain into its flagship Q8, making it the seventh PHEV to join the fleet. Available in two specifications, the Q8 TFSI e is more ostentatious than ever, bringing with it substantial power, a usable zero-emissions range, and also gargantuan SUV size.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A Canadian startup has launched an INDIEGOGO funding campaign to support the development of the VEGAN electric self-charging solar tricycle. The VEGAN is a lightweight multipurpose hybrid electric-self-charging solar tricycle. The team has not yet produced a working demo for their concept. The team projects that the high-efficiency vehicle will have a a minimum unit cost of only $1,400 to produce—the price of an average mountain bike—once the funding goal is reached.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2020

New Jersey might be the next state to ban sales of new gasoline and diesel cars. Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order banning sales of new internal-combustion cars by 2035; and now a report from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recommends that lawmakers in that state do the same. The.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Say hello to the Hyundai i20 N – a potent little supermini that’s aiming to take on the likes of Ford’s Fiesta ST

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Discover EV

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Throughout the second half of October, Renault is hosting its first eWays event – a forum through which it is showing off its vision for an electrified future. The big news is two-fold: the Mégane is going EV and the current version is getting an E-TECH PHEV powertrain. Dacia is also launching an EV, but sadly the UK won't be getting it.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The new VW Golf is now also available in certain markets with natural gas drive: the Golf TGI is equipped with a 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine with 96 kW / 130 PS and three natural gas fuel tanks. The tanks are integrated into the underbody and permit a range of around 400 kilometers (WLTP) in pure natural gas mode. The engine of the quasi-monovalent drive system is powered primarily with CNG (Compressed Natural Gas), but can also run on gasoline.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Tesla Model Y electric crossovers equipped with the optional tow package are being recalled for inoperative trailer-brake lights, but Tesla claims to have already remedied the issue through an over-the-air (OTA) software update. In the 2,567 affected vehicles, a software error could prevent illumination of trailer-brake lights, according to the.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Suzuki Swift supermini has been given a minor update to keep it fresh in the face of rivals for 2021.

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EV Match

OCTOBER 22, 2020

General Motors discontinued the Hummer in 2010 amidst the Great Recession and rising gas prices. The embodiment of American excess, the Hummer had long been a target of environmentalists, so you can imagine their surprise to see GM resurrect it 10 years later as a full battery electric vehicle (BEV) with a 350-mile range. While Tesla famously refrains from advertising its vehicles on traditional mediums, GM went all-in this week by announcing the Hummer EV “Supertruck” on primetime T

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Fossil fuels still receive most of the international government support provided to the energy sector despite their “well-known environmental and public health damage,” according to new research from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. “There is evidence that fossil fuel subsidies are socially inequitable, that they encourage smuggling and waste, and distort economies in ways that undermine economic efficiency while harming the environment and the climate,” wrote Jim Krane, the

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2020

BMW reported Tuesday that it had built its 200,000th i3 electric car since the start of production in 2013. The milestone car was finished in Fluid Black metallic paint with BMW i Blue accents, and was produced for a customer in the German state of Saxony, the automaker said in a press release. Launched in the United States for the 2014 model.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The Volkswagen Tiguan has been comprehensively updated and is now available to order

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In an entirely new approach to making lithium-ion batteries lighter, safer and more efficient, scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have reengineered one of the heaviest battery components—sheets of copper or aluminum foil known as current collectors—so they weigh 80% less and immediately quench any fires that flare up.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2020

General Motors announced its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center will be known as Factory ZERO, reconfigured to an all-electric vehicle assembly plant. The name Factory ZERO reflects the significance of this facility in advancing GM’s zero-crashes, zero-emissions and zero-congestion future. Factory ZERO will be the launchpad for GM’s multi-brand EV strategy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Chart Industries, a leading independent global manufacturer of liquefaction and cryogenic equipment servicing multiple applications in the energy and industrial gas markets, including hydrogen, made a €30-million Strategic Cornerstone Investment in McPhy, a leading manufacturer and supplier of carbon-free hydrogen production and distribution equipment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $27 million in funding for 12 projects that will support the development of advanced plastics recycling technologies and new plastics that are recyclable-by-design. As part of DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Ways2H ?, the developer of a gasification-based process that converts waste into clean hydrogen fuel for mobility, microgrids and power generation ( earlier post ), closed an investment from Pacific6 Enterprises, led by founding partner John C. Molina. Ways2H is a joint venture between US-based Clean Energy Enterprises, and Japan Blue Energy Corporation.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

Recycling Technologies, a specialist plastic recycling technology provider; Neste, the leading provider of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and a forerunner in drop-in renewable and circular chemical solutions; and Unilever, the consumer goods manufacturer, will collaborate to develop further and to harness chemical recycling to recover and to reuse plastic packaging that is currently either incinerated, buried in landfill or exported from the UK.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In 2019, during the UITP Global Public Transport Summit representatives of Solaris and RATP Group (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) signed a contract for lease and tests of the Urbino 12 hydrogen. Over the next few weeks, RATP will test the hydrogen-fueled bus on the streets of Paris. RATP will devote most of this time testing the operational capabilities of the vehicle in regular passenger traffic.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The Port of Rotterdam Authority, the Port of Amsterdam, North Sea Port Netherlands, Drechtsteden, the Port of Antwerp and De Vlaamse Waterweg intend to set up a single shore-based power system for inland shipping and the river cruise industry. This will contribute to the user-friendliness of this facility, which is used to provide moored vessels with electric power.

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